admin The development comes as senior judges in the UK ruled that the Government’s first flight taking asylum seekers to the African nation, could go ahead. A High Court judge refused a temporary injunction on Friday to halt the first flight, due to take place on Tuesday, and on Monday, according to news reports, the Court … Read moreUK’s bid to export some refugees to Rwanda, ‘all wrong’, says UN refugee chief |
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the intense heatwave made its way from North Africa. The UN agency explained that an Atlantic low-pressure system between the Azores and Madeira is fuelling the warm front, pushing it towards western Europe. 10 degrees above normal And although it’s only mid-June, temperatures in some parts of Spain and … Read more‘Surprise’ early heatwave in Europe, harbinger of things to come |
The 12 trucks carrying food, water purification tablets, hygiene and other desperately needed household items, arrived in the region on Monday. Yesterday, humanitarians delivered 12 trucks of life-saving items to 64K people in Kramatorsk & Sloviansk.Intense hostilities left the entire population of these two cities in desperate need of assistance. Our colleague Ivane Bochorishvili was … Read moreUkraine: UN and partners deliver lifesaving aid to Donetska region |
Beginning her briefing with a wider perspective, Wairimu Nderitu said that hateful and contentious narratives that form in the wake of growing hostility, violence and discrimination, could have a “devastating impact” on societies at large. “We saw it in the lead up to the Holocaust, in Rwanda in 1994” and also in the ethnically-charged Bosnia … Read moreViolence, rhetoric, hate speech, drive atrocity crimes in Ukraine and beyond, Security Council hears |
The editor in chief of the independent Russian news service, Novaya Gazeta – which was shuttered by the Kremlin in March following sweeping new restrictions on journalists in the wake of the Ukraine invasion – said that he and his colleagues chose the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF as the best non-governmental organization for the job … Read moreUkraine: Russian Nobel winner praises UNICEF as ‘excellent’ choice to distribute $103.5 million auction proceeds |
The four-day mission marked the first visit by a UN human rights High Commissioner in more than two decades, and she noted that some of the same rights challenges from that era persist today. Ms. Bachelet hailed an “unprecedented ruling” handed down this week, sentencing three people for incitement to hatred for singing songs threatening violence. … Read moreBosnia and Herzegovina: UN rights chief urges leaders to ‘turn the page on rhetoric’ |
At least ten people have reportedly been killed by what Ukrainian authorities have said was a Russian missile strike on a crowded shopping centre, and attack which the UN condemned on Monday as “utterly deplorable”. The mall in the eastern city of Kremenchuk – a city which has largely escaped being targeted – was hit … Read moreUkraine: Dozens dead and injured as UN condemns ‘utterly deplorable’ shopping centre attack |
“The cycle of death, destruction, dislocation, and disruption must stop”, underscored Rosemary DiCarlo. Depravity of war Amidst a new wave in recent days of missile and airstrikes in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv and other cities far from the frontlines, the senior UN official drew attention to the missile strike in Kremenchuk on a shopping … Read moreUkraine: Cycle of death, destruction, dislocation, and disruption ‘must stop’ |
With temperatures expected to remain above normal until the middle of next week, the World Metrological Organization (WMO) warned that heatwaves will occur more and more frequently, into the 2060s. The pattern is linked to the observed warming of the planet that can be attributed to human activity, raising serious concerns for the planet’s future, … Read moreWMO warns of frequent heatwaves in decades ahead |
Presenting her annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Anaïs Marin, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarus, pointed to Government policies that have systematically tightened legislation and restricted civil and political rights. She said it was a trend that has continued in the two years since the UN rights office, … Read moreBelarus ‘engulfed in fear’, Human Rights Council hears |